Was BEESENSE hit by ransomware?

BEESENSE was listed by the Quantum ransomware operation (Israel), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the Quantum ransomware group?

Quantum is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the BEESENSE breach?

Quantum published data attributed to BEESENSE. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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BEESENSE

Claimed by Quantum · listed 4 years ago

48m

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 4, 2022
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Quantum
Status: Data leaked
Country: Israel
Sector: Manufacturing
Listed on leak site: Aug 4, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

BeeSense designs, develops, and manufactures advanced multi-sensor technology-based solutions for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The company also produces independent wireless communication and power infrastructure systems. It operates in the homeland security and defense sectors, based in Israel.

Industry: Defense & Homeland Security Technology

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The victim operates in the defense and homeland security sector, developing ISR and surveillance technologies. Exfiltration and publication of data from a defense-oriented company constitutes a critical severity event due to the potential exposure of sensitive national security-adjacent technology, proprietary defense systems, and potentially classified or export-controlled information.

The Quantum ransomware group claims to have attacked BeeSense and has published data (disclosed status: data_published), indicating exfiltration of company data related to its defense and homeland security operations. No ransom amount or explicit data volume was stated in the post.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Defense technology documentation
Multi-sensor system designs
Surveillance and reconnaissance project files
Wireless communication infrastructure data
Internal business records

What the group claims

BeeSense designs, develops and manufactures advanced, unique, multi-sensor technology-based solutions and independent, wireless communication & power infrastructures for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the homeland security and defense sectors.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Quantum

Quantum is a ransomware group that emerged in September 2021, operating with primarily financial motivations and demonstrating a focus on high-value targets across English-speaking nations. The group's geographic targeting patterns and operational characteristics suggest possible connections to established ransomware ecosystems, though specific attribution or confirmed affiliations with other threat actors remain undocumented in public reporting. Quantum operators typically employ double extortion tactics, combining data encryption with the threat of public data exposure to maximize pressure on victims, and their campaigns have consistently targeted sectors with critical operational dependencies including business services, manufacturing, and information technology infrastructure. The group has maintained a relatively low public profile compared to other major ransomware operations, with their 68 documented victims representing a more selective approach to target acquisition rather than broad-scale campaigns. Despite limited public law enforcement reporting specifically focused on Quantum operations, the group's continued activity pattern suggests they remain an active threat as of recent observations, though comprehensive operational details remain scarce in publicly available threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 68 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on September 9, 2021; most recent post December 9, 2022. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: QuantumLocker, Mount Locker, DagonLocker.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 4, 2022BEESENSE listed by Quantumon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Quantum

Quantum has been linked to 68 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Quantum dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Manufacturing sector, which has 3,681 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, BEESENSE is reported in Israel, a country with 156 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Quantum means BEESENSE appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-IL (Israel), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on Quantum's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.